In just a few days, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus will come together in the night sky in what is known as the Dance of the Planets. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

Planets orbit their parent stars while separated by enormous distances – in our solar system, planets are like grains of sand in a region the size of a football field. The time that planets take to ...

It's prom season -- for the planets. Every couple of years, give or take, planets get together in the night sky in such a way that they seem to be aligned with each other. They seem to be, really -- ...

A captivating celestial dance unfolds in a distant planetary system as NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) unveils a rare gravitational lockstep among six planets. These planets, akin ...

[ Video: Moon and Planet Alignments through June ] Dance of the planets As you can see, three planets begin the two-week stretch in a tight triangle: brilliant Venus and Jupiter above, fainter Mercury ...

If you haven’t yet seen the great planetary gathering that’s unfolding in the west at dusk, the first half of May brings your best opportunity. All five naked-eye planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, ...

A Northwestern University astrophysicist has produced a stunning video of four planets dancing around their sun. The tantalizing planetary dance was made using observations over a 12-year period. The ...

Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming isolation. With further observation, however, one in ...